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This weekend I attended the "Land That Never Forgets" exhibition at Rhodes Park in Kensington. I decided this park deserves its own #Gauteng52 post.

Over the last nearly eight years, I've written 800 blog posts. Here are some thoughts to commemorate the milestone.

Hidden behind an imposing metal fence in an office park in Modderfontein, La Marina Foods sells the freshest fish in Johannesburg.

Welcome to Week 40 of my #Gauteng52 challenge, for which I visit and blog about a new place in Gauteng Province every week for 52 straight weeks. This week I …

During the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation's annual Heritage Weekend, I walked through two of historic middle-class suburbs, Killarney and Forest Town.

I spent the night at the Indaba Hotel in Fourways, and was treated to the best massage (or massages, actually) of my life.

Heather (2Summers) and Meruschka (Mzansigirl) are hosting a #WalkMyCity tour of Joburg, sponsored by Hi-Tec. We're visiting all kinds of cool secret places.

Johannesburg has a fantastic collection of well-maintained public pools. The Zoo Lake Swimming Pool is one of the best and most popular of the pools.

Andalousse is a tiny Moroccan joint hidden on a busy street in Woodstock. I rarely review Cape Town restaurants but this one deserves a shout-out.

I spent a morning exploring Marabastad, a vibrant, historic, chaotic shopping district just outside of downtown Pretoria.

A serious post about a breakup, by the Melville Cat.

I finally got to visit the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Sergius, the church with the gleaming gold domes in Midrand that's visible from the N1 Highway.